Welcome to the 2000s! Let’s learn something about the latest in enterprise architecture: SOAP! See how easy it is to consume data from a non-SAP system in NetWeaver ABAP. This will bring the internet to SAP and positions your system as a player in the new internet market. Supporting SOAP Read more…
The SAP NetWeaver ABAP Developer Edition needs a valid NetWeaver license (a license can be obtained from www.sap.com/minisap). The 7.5x Dev Edition on ASE is provided with a developer user. While renewing the license is easy, you have to follow exactly the steps outlined in Julie Plummer’s blog: “IMPORTANT: To Read more…
There are many alternatives available to achieve single sign-on to a NetWeaver (ABAP) system. I’ve already demonstrated these at DSAG AK Development as well as documented almost all of them in my blog. For instance, take a look at SAML 2.0, X.509 based logon or OAuth 2.0. All of the Read more…
Problem You want to start SAP NetWeaver ABAP. The ASCS service starts, the dialog instance not. The status reported of the DIA is GRAY for disp+work. /usr/sap/A4H/D00/exe/sapcontrol -nr 00 -function GetProcessList Root cause More information can be obtained in the output of the work processes. The traces can be found Read more…
“You may say I’m a dreamer But I’m not the only one I hope some day you’ll join us And the world will be as one” Imagine – John Lennon The underlying platform for SAP’s ERP solutions is SAP NetWeaver ABAP. Independently whether it is on-premises or in the cloud; Read more…
SAP provides a nice trace tool for troubleshooting login errors with SAML 2.0: Sec Diag Tool. It is a WebDynpro ABAP application. Make sure to activate the necessary ICF services first before running the tool. URL: /sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/sec_diag_tool/ In NPL: https://vhcalnplci:44300/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/sec_diag_tool/ With the tool you can start a SAML2 trace. When Read more…
Problem After sending a request to the access token endpoint /sap/bc/sec/oauth2/token you get an internal server error 500. Investigation Tx: SA38 Program: SEC_TRACE_ANALYZER Run program. Select OAuth varian: click on Get Variants Click on Activate Trace is active. Reproduce the issue. The log trace for the user will show the Read more…
I run an SAP NetWeaver ABAP Dev Edition system in a Virtual Box VM. Unfortunately, the update process for this software is to delete and reinstall after the DB license expires. Installing a new NW ABAP version is not overly complex: the SAP provided installer is easy to use and Read more…
This blog will help you to connect to your SAP NetWeaver ABAP instance running inside a Docker container. For how to get NetWeaver running inside a Docker container, please see my blog Docker for SAP NetWeaver ABAP 7.5x Developer Edition. Note: The port information is specified when you start the Read more…
This is the introduction blog on how to activate SAML 2.0 based logon on SAP NetWeaver ABAP systems. The example configuration shown here is using SAP Gateway. It is the same procedure for any SAP NetWeaver ABAP system that allows SAML 2.0 logons. The system used while writing the blog Read more…